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 First manned Munar mission in 0.90, get all the way there and realize I had somehow rotated two of my pods so that their landing legs are facing inward. Jeb's retrograde SAS and a nice flat landing spot let me touchdown at 0.5 m/s and still stay upright!
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One of the biggest changes I've made since 0.90 is trying to use solid boosters as much as possible since they are so much cheaper. After I got Ion engines I spent half an hour launch/revert/changing a design that would let me put a probe in orbit using just one large booster, with no expensive reaction wheels or RCS, but seperatrons at 5% thrust to tilt the rocket over at the right altitude. I finally got the thrust/fuel/timing mix just right. Gimballed engines are for quitters.
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Dec 25, 2014 05:28
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The Green Calx posted:So I've got an interesting bug that I've never seen before. I was messing around, running around KSC with one of my mans, when I looked up to see these...things. Are you running a mod that adds clouds?
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Dec 29, 2014 18:41
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I would count any (space)plane landing where 50% or more of the parts didn't explode as better than average, regardless of whether they are still attached to the cockpit.
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Jan 2, 2015 23:45
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Vetitum posted:I'm probably trying to go for a full on landing far too early on in the career as the launchpad currently still has a 18 t limit, that design looks like it would weigh quite a bit more. Back to grinding more visual surveys it is for now! Launchpad lvl 2 is the most important upgrade I think, since weight limits are what keep you from using cheap SRB's for all your LKO needs. I'm not sure if it's because I'm playing on moderate instead of normal, but it seems like your really don't need the reputation -> science strategy. I've got like 7000 science banked after stripping Minmus & about half the Mun, and the tech tree is filled out to the Research Complex lvl 2 limit, but I've only got about 2 mil out of the 4.7 mil funds to upgrade it. By the time I finally grind up the cash to upgrade it I'm going to be able to unlock every node at once, but have no money left to prototype the parts. I wish the Rep/Sci -> funds strategies weren't useless. They need something more like a 500 to 1 conversion ratio.
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Jan 5, 2015 18:32
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Supraluminal posted:Alternately, switch from a part count limit to a craft budget limit, which could allow for more interesting tradeoffs. This is an excellent idea. Either this, or make small/physicsless parts like lights, seperatrons, & RCS thrusters not count toward part limits. Right now with a 30 part limit you can get a kerman on the Mun, but you often have to sacrifice landing lights and RCS to get enough fuel tanks to do it, which doesn't really make sense.
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Jan 6, 2015 17:46
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FuSchnick posted:Mental note: Getting a 16t Zoology Lab into orbit within 140 tons (level 2 launch pad) is REALLY tight. I have entertained the possibility of launching a disposable refueler/tug before my main launch, and then trying to time my main launch so that it crosses the orbit of the tug close enough to dock even if the main launch can't quite get to orbit. It just seems like too much work, though, when 20 minutes of satellite launches will get you enough cash to upgrade the launch pad anyway.
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Jan 16, 2015 21:53
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Anyone know why Tweakscale won't update the amount of fuel in my tanks when I change the size? Is there a known mod incompatibility? My Mods: Alcubierre Warp Drive (Stand-alone) (AlcubierreStandalone 0.3.1.0) Community Resource Pack (CommunityResourcePack 0.4.7.0) Community Tech Tree (CommunityTechTree 2.2) DMagic Orbital Science (DMagicOrbitalScience 1.0.9.1) Firespitter Core (FirespitterCore v7.1.5) Interstellar Fuel Switch (InterstellarFuelSwitch 1.18) Interstellar Fuel Switch Core (InterstellarFuelSwitch-Core 1.18) Karbonite (Karbonite 1:0.6.6.0) KarbonitePlus (KarbonitePlus 0.5.2.0) Kerbal Joint Reinforcement (KerbalJointReinforcement v3.1.4) KSP Interstellar Extended (KSPInterstellarExtended 1.6.1) Modular Fuel Tanks (ModularFuelTanks 5.6.1) Module Manager (ModuleManager 2.6.13) Precise Node (PreciseNode 1.2.1) Protractor (Protractor v2.5.1) RealChute Parachute Systems (RealChute 1.3.2.6) SCANsat (SCANsat v14.4) Sounding Rockets! (SoundingRockets 0.3.1.0) Toolbar (Toolbar 1.7.10) TweakScale - Rescale Everything! (TweakScale v2.2.5) USI Core (USI-Core 0.1.2.0) USI Exploration Pack (USI-EXP 0.4.3.0) USI Freight Transport Technologies (USI-FTT 0.4.3.0) USI Kolonization Systems (MKS/OKS) (UKS 1:0.31.12.0) USI Life Support (USI-LS 0.1.7.0) USI Survival Pack (USI-SRV 0.3.3.0) USI Tools (USITools 0.5.3.0) Also running KER experimental 1.0.5 build Science Alert 1.0.4 build
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Dec 3, 2015 17:53
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Just crunched a few numbers, if going to the moon was like a quick trip to the next town over (say 15 km) then going to Proxima Centauri is like a slightly less quick trip... to Saturn.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:56
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Taffer posted:I've got a weird issue. I'm using KAS, and I connected two ships on the ground to transfer fuel between them. Like so: I've had the same problem for a while now. EC transfers fine, but it doesn't seem to want to move fuel. It's not as annoying as the eva locked controls bug, though. I think I've spent as much time restarting KSP on this last munar mission as I have biome hopping.
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Nov 10, 2016 17:54
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https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ Anybody post this yet? Confirmation at 0:58 that Jeb works at SpaceX.
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Sep 18, 2017 01:44
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Anybody else getting BSOD's on trying to hibernate/restore Win10 after playing a heavily modded game? I figure it's either KSP or the recent 'content' update.
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illectro posted:Nice.... although technically I’m not a wizard since I can explain what I do. I can explain how transistors, integrated circuits, and microprocessors work; but most people's eyes glaze over until you get to the part which explains how to get their Netflix working again. If magic is just technology that is so advanced that most people can't understand it then physicists, engineers, chemists, etc. are wizards for all intents and purposes. The only reason we don't pay our modern miracles the respect they're due is that everyone born in the last 70 years has lived with the miraculous every day, to the point where we've given up on wondering how the magic happens and just want to know what it'll do for us.
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